Let’s talk.
Considering the licence, curious about the idea, or looking for a particular answer? We would like to hear from you.
Find the right contact
- hello@purposesource.org
General enquiries — adoption, the licence, the schedule, the registry, anything on this site.
Response target: 5 business days
- legal@purposesource.org
Legal notices and service, data-subject requests, the right to object, takedown, trademark and brand-use matters.
Response target: 30 days (statutory maximum; usually much sooner) for a data request; 5 business days otherwise
- security@purposesource.org
Vulnerability reports only. Coordinated disclosure, scope, and safe-harbour wording are on the security page.
Response target: 3 business days to acknowledge, 10 business days to triage
- press@purposesource.org
Media enquiries, interviews and background information.
Response target: 5 business days
- billing@purposesource.org
Invoices, receipts, renewals, refunds and revenue-band corrections. Payments are handled by our reseller Paddle (paddle.net).
Response target: 5 business days
Security reports have their own policy, scope, and safe-harbour wording: the security page and security.txt. Do not use the forms below for a vulnerability report.
By phone
For purchases and billing. Email is the quickest way to reach us.
By post
Purpose Source AssociationAltstadtbüro
Zollrain 2
5000 Aarau
Switzerland
This is also the address for legal service. Post is slower than email: for anything with a deadline, write to legal@purposesource.org as well.
Messages go by email to the Association. These forms do not store a copy in a website database. Read the privacy notice for retention and your rights. Response times are targets; our team is small.
General contact
Tell us what you are exploring. A repository link or a little context will help us give a useful answer.
Response target: 5 business days. No submission is stored in the website database.
Abuse and moderation report
Report a misrepresented certificate, a false coverage claim, a sold waiver, a repository misusing the marks, or any content on this site you believe is wrong. Include the URL, the certificate identifier, or the repository so the report is actionable.
Response target: 5 business days. No submission is stored in the website database.
Data request
Exercise access, rectification, erasure, restriction, objection, or portability, or withdraw a consent. This site stores nothing about anonymous visitors and has no accounts, so most requests concern a message you previously sent us or, in a later phase, attribution data. We verify identity proportionately, charge nothing, and answer within the statutory maximum.
Response target: 30 days (statutory maximum; usually much sooner). No submission is stored in the website database.
Right to object to attribution
A standing objection: if you never want your contributions attributed, displayed, or used to direct funds, ask to be placed on the exclusion list. It stores a salted hash of your account identifier — no login, no reason text — and the exclusion is irreversible by design, so that no future operator can quietly undo it. Tell us the platform account you mean.
Response target: 30 days (statutory maximum; usually much sooner). No submission is stored in the website database.
Data requests and the right to object, in detail
The route is the data-request form or legal@purposesource.org. We answer within 30 days (statutory maximum; usually much sooner), verify identity proportionately — for a request about attribution data, by having you sign in with the same platform account — and charge nothing.
- What erasure reaches: display identity, contact data, tokens, opt-in emails, and certificates issued to you on request.
- What it does not reach: the allocation ledger and the transparency log, which contain no personal data by schema, and accounting records inside their statutory retention period. Saying so up front is better than promising erasure and then explaining an exception.
- The exclusion list is permanent on purpose: honouring an objection requires remembering it, so a salted hash stays even though nothing else does.
- Complaints go to a supervisory authority — in Switzerland the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner; in the EU or UK, your local authority.
What we cannot help with
We cannot give legal, tax, or accounting advice, and we cannot pre-approve your interpretation of the licence — an interpretation from us would not bind a court and would mislead you about how much comfort you had. What we can do is point at the operative clause and the published record. For a procurement or programme-office review, the OSPO and legal pack is written for exactly that, and the licence itself is the operative clause.
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